AT&T has secured agreements with Fox Networks Group and Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios Networks to extend the number of channels that will be available on AT&T’s new streaming service DirecTV Now when it launches later this month. Under a far-reaching deal with Fox Networks, programming available to DirecTV Now customers will include Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, FX, FXX, FXM, FS 1, FS 2, Big Ten Network, 18 Fox regional sports networks, National Geographic and Nat Geo Wild.

The Justice Department’s lawsuit alleging DirecTV colluded with other pay TV distributors to prevent carriage of the Dodgers channel will stoke the fears of programmers who worry their customers scheme ...

WASHINGTON—The Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit Wednesday against AT&T Inc.’s DirecTV, alleging that it engaged in unlawful information-sharing with rival pay-TV operators when they all resisted carrying a pricey Los Angeles-area sports channel owned by the Dodgers baseball team. The civil lawsuit thrusts the government into a bitter dispute over SportsNet LA, a channel launched by Time Warner Cable in 2014 to carry Dodger games, and inserts antitrust enforcers into a heated debate about the costs of sports television. The lawsuit also could cast a shadow over AT&T’s proposed $85.4 billion deal to acquire entertainment giant Time Warner Inc. Some critics of the deal say further media consolidation could increase the likelihood of the kind of collusive behavior alleged in Wednesday’s lawsuit.